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Around 250 BC, Archimedes was commissioned by the king to find a way to check the purity of the gold in a crown, leading to the famous bath-house shouting of " Eureka!
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Around 250 BCE, the eastern part of the Seleucid Kingdom broke away to form the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom.
Around 250 BC the first ceramic-using people in the Caribbean, the Saladoid people, entered Trinidad and Tobago.
Around 250 were sentenced to prison for major offences, ranging from 16 months to 21 years ; fifty more were sentenced to transportation to Australia.
Around 400 houses were destroyed, 15 streets incinerated and a total of 1, 500 homes were damaged, leaving 1, 250 people homeless – essentially obliterating the neighbourhood of Roombeek.
Around the Mesozoic Era 250 million years ago, the earth's crust started to rise due to tectonic shifts, forcing the water out and leaving behind evaporite formations of salt and gypsum.
Around the time of the licence award, Amstrad withdrew its backing as they believed it was not possible to sell a satellite dish for £ 250.
Around May 6, G4 announced the termination of 250 employees from the San Francisco office by July 16, 2004, allowing approximately 80 to 100 employees to transition to G4's main office in Los Angeles if they agreed to relocate there.
Around May 6, G4 announced the termination of 250 employees from the San Francisco office by July 10, 2004, allowing approximately 80 to 100 employees to transition to G4's main office in Los Angeles, California if they agreed to relocate there.
Around May 6, G4 announced the termination of 250 employees from the San Francisco office by July 10, 2004, allowing approximately 80 to 100 employees to transition to G4's main office in Los Angeles, California if they agreed to relocate there.
Around the year 1000, the population of Polish lands is estimated at about 1, 000, 000 to 1, 250, 000.
Around that time Christianity entered the city, and the Christian community greatly expanded under the first bishop of Toulouse Saint Saturnin ( locally known as Saint Sernin ), who was martyred in Toulouse around AD 250.
Around May 6, G4 announced the termination of 250 employees from the San Francisco office by July 10, 2004, allowing approximately 80 to 100 employees to transition to G4's main office in Los Angeles, California if they agreed to relocate there.
Around May 6, G4 announced the termination of 250 employees from the San Francisco office by July 10, 2004, allowing approximately 80 to 100 employees to transition to G4's main office in Los Angeles, California if they agreed to relocate there.
Around May 6, G4 announced the termination of 250 employees from the San Francisco office by July 10, 2004, allowing approximately 80 to 100 employees to transition to G4's main office in Los Angeles, California if they agreed to relocate there.
Around 250 AD a gigantic palace () was built here, north of the Alps, with a peristyle, and 50 rooms on the ground floor alone.
Around 250 BC during the Warring States Period ( 475-221BC ), Li Bing, a governor of Shu in the Qin state ( present Sichuan Province ) with his son directed the construction of Dujiangyan.
The extra black € 250, 000 balls won on " Around the World " were placed into the large bubble machine, along with a large number of other balls numbered € 10, 000, € 12, 000, € 15, 000, € 20, 000, € 30, 000, € 40, 000, € 50, 000, and € 100, 000.
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Around 338 BC the orator Hyperides ( fragment 13 ) claimed that there were 150, 000 slaves in Attica, but this figure is probably not more than an impression: slaves outnumbered those of citizen stock but did not swamp them.
Around 500 BC the Ur-Parthenon was dismantled to make place for a newer and grander building, the " Older Parthenon " ( often called Pro-Parthenon, " early Parthenon ").
Around 446 BC, they were given the authority to care for the decrees of the senate ( senatus consulta ).
Around 60 BC, a group of Boians joined the Helvetians ' ill-fated attempt to conquer land in western Gaul and were defeated by Julius Caesar, along with their allies, in the battle of Bibracte.
Around 60 BC they clashed with the rising power of the Dacians under their king Burebista and were defeated.
Around the 8th century BC, a kingdom known as D ' mt was established in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, with its capital at Yeha in northern Ethiopia.
Around 330 BC, Aristotle maintained on the basis of physical theory and observational evidence that the Earth was spherical.
Around 300 BC, they were pushed inland by the Deutero-Malays, an Iron Age or Bronze Age people descended partly from the Chams of Cambodia and Vietnam.
Around 713 BC, the semi-mythical successor of Romulus, King Numa Pompilius, is supposed to have added the months of January and February, allowing the calendar to equal a standard lunar year ( 354 days ).
Around 10200 BC, the first fully developed Neolithic cultures belonging to the phase Pre-Pottery Neolithic A ( PPNA ) appeared in the fertile crescent.
Around 10, 700 to 9400 BC, a settlement was established in Tell Qaramel, 25 kilometers north of Aleppo.
Around 6400 BC the Halaf culture appeared in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, and Northern Mesopotamia and subsisted on dryland agriculture.
Around 700 BC, they appear to have developed systems of social organization that were the precursors of the Inca civilization.
Around 340 BC, the Greek navigator Pytheas of Massalia ventured from Greece to Western Europe and Great Britain.
Around 1720 BC, Semitic Canaanite nomads called Hyksos took over Egypt, ended the Middle Kingdom, severed links with Kush, and destroyed the forts along the Nile River.
Around 750 BC, a Kushite king called Kashta conquered Upper Egypt and became ruler of Thebes until approximately 740 BC.
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